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For the Record: Poems
By Nisha Patel
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By Nisha Patel
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A remarkable (and evolving) long poem that articulates the impact of the ongoing death toll from COVID-19
For the Record is a book-length poem whose word count is set to the number of lives lost to COVID-19 in Alberta, the author's home province—which as of January 2026 sits at 7,113 people. Told in two parts, with each section recording real-time headlines, the book begins with the first COVID-related death of Cargill meat factory worker Bui Thi Hiep. But the poem that cannot truly end doe...